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char¹

(chär)

v. charred, char·ring, chars

v.tr.

1. To burn the surface of; scorch.

2. To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion. See Synonyms at burn¹.

v.intr.

1. To become scorched.

2. To become reduced to carbon or charcoal.

A substance that has been scorched, burned, or reduced to charcoal.

[Back-formation from charcoal.]

char²

also charr (chär)

n. pl. char or chars also charr or charrs

Any of several salmonid fishes of the genus Salvelinus, usually having a dark body with light spots, and including the arctic char, the brook trout, and the lake trout.

[Origin unknown.]

char³

(chär) Chiefly British

A charwoman.

intr.v. charred, char·ring, chars

To work as a charwoman.

[Middle English, a piece of work, from Old English cierr, a turning.]

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char

(tʃɑː)

vb, chars, charring or charred

1. to burn or be burned partially, esp so as to blacken the surface; scorch

2. (tr) to reduce (wood) to charcoal by partial combustion

[C17: short for charcoal]

char

(tʃɑː) or

charr

n, pl char, chars, charr or charrs

(Animals) any of various troutlike fishes of the genus Salvelinus, esp S. alpinus, occurring in cold lakes and northern seas: family Salmonidae (salmon)

[C17: of unknown origin]

char

(tʃɑː)

short for charwoman

vb, chars, charring or charred

to do housework, cleaning, etc, as a job

[C18: from Old English cerr]

char

(tʃɑː)

(Cookery) Brit a slang word for tea

[from Chinese ch'a]

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char¹

(tʃɑr)

v. charred, char•ring,
n. v.t.

1. to burn or reduce to charcoal.

2. to burn slightly; scorch: The flame charred the steak.

v.i.

3. to become charred.

4. a charred material or surface.

5. charcoal.

[1670–80; appar. extracted from charcoal]

char²

(tʃɑr)

n., pl. (esp. collectively) char, (esp. for kinds or species) chars.

any trout of the genus Salvelinus (or Cristovomer), esp. the arctic char.

[1655–65; of unknown origin]

char³

(tʃɑr)

n., v. charred, char•ring. Chiefly Brit. n.

1. charwoman.

v.i.

2. to work at cleaning offices or houses.

[1375–1425; late Middle English, Old English cerr, cierr turn, time, occasion, derivative of cierran to turn]

char.

1. character.

2. charter.

char

Past participle: charred
Gerund: charring

Imperative
char
char

Present
I char
you char
he/she/it chars
we char
you char
they char

Preterite
I charred
you charred
he/she/it charred
we charred
you charred
they charred

Present Continuous
I am charring
you are charring
he/she/it is charring
we are charring
you are charring
they are charring

Present Perfect
I have charred
you have charred
he/she/it has charred
we have charred
you have charred
they have charred

Past Continuous
I was charring
you were charring
he/she/it was charring
we were charring
you were charring
they were charring

Past Perfect
I had charred
you had charred
he/she/it had charred
we had charred
you had charred
they had charred

Future
I will char
you will char
he/she/it will char
we will char
you will char
they will char

Future Perfect
I will have charred
you will have charred
he/she/it will have charred
we will have charred
you will have charred
they will have charred

Future Continuous
I will be charring
you will be charring
he/she/it will be charring
we will be charring
you will be charring
they will be charring

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been charring
you have been charring
he/she/it has been charring
we have been charring
you have been charring
they have been charring

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been charring
you will have been charring
he/she/it will have been charring
we will have been charring
you will have been charring
they will have been charring

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been charring
you had been charring
he/she/it had been charring
we had been charring
you had been charring
they had been charring

Conditional
I would char
you would char
he/she/it would char
we would char
you would char
they would char

Past Conditional
I would have charred
you would have charred
he/she/it would have charred
we would have charred
you would have charred
they would have charred

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Noun	1.	char - a charred substance atomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds animal black, animal charcoal, bone black, bone char - black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment snuff - the charred portion of a candlewick
	2.	char - a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman cleaner - someone whose occupation is cleaning
	3.	char - any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus charr salmonid - soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters genus Salvelinus, Salvelinus - brook trout Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus - small trout of northern waters; landlocked populations in Quebec and northern New England
Verb	1.	char - burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" coal combust, burn - cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
	2.	char - burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" blacken, sear, scorch cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" burn - burn with heat, fire, or radiation; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress" singe, swinge - burn superficially or lightly; "I singed my eyebrows"

char

verb scorch, sear, singe Halve the peppers and char the skins under a hot grill.

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char

verb

To undergo or cause to undergo damage by or as if by fire:

burn, scorch, sear, singe.

noun

Damage or a damaged substance that results from burning:

burn, scorch, sear, singe.

Translations

يَحْرِقُ، يُفَحِّمُ

spálitzuhelnatit

brændebrænde påsvide

Saibling verkohlen versengen Zugehfrau ankohlen

καθαρίστρια καρβουνιάζω παραδουλεύτρα

hiilihiillyttäähiiltääpuronieriäpuuhiili

carboniser

elszenesedik

brenna; svíîa

andare a servizio carattere carbonizzare donna delle pulizie simbolo

paversti anglimis

pārogļotiessadedzināt

zuhoľnatieť

char

¹ [tʃɑːʳ]

A. VT (= burn black) → carbonizar

B. VI → carbonizarse

char

² [tʃɑːʳ]

A. N (= charwoman) = charlady

B. VI → limpiar, trabajar como asistenta

char

³ [tʃɑːʳ] N (Brit) → té m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

char

[ˈtʃɑː^r]

(= burn) → carboniser

vi (= burn) [food] → brûler

(British) [cleaner] → faire des ménages

n (British) = charlady

char

vt (= burn black) → verkohlen

char

² (Brit inf)

n (also charwoman, charlady) → Putzfrau f

vi → putzen; to char for somebody → bei jdm putzen

char

n (= fish) → Saibling m

char

⁴

n (Brit inf: = tea) → Tee m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

char

¹ [tʃɑːʳ] vt (burn black) → carbonizzare

char

² [tʃɑːʳ] (Brit)

1. n (charwoman) → donna a ore

2. vi → lavorare come donna a ore

char

(tʃaː) – past tense past participle charred – verb

to burn or turn black by fire or heat. The wood was charred by the intense heat.

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Newcastle had, and still has, a number of these old chares, although a host of them, such as Grinding Chare, Pallister's Chare and Peppercorn Chare, were demolished after the devastating Great Fire of Newcastle in 1854.

Proof of a street name is in the pudding; IT'S AN ANCIENT NEWCASTLE THOROUGHFARE

These were medieval plots with narrow street frontages and accessed via alleyways, or chares, off the street.

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A series of narrow lanes called chares, running north-south and providing access to the riverfront were laid out on this new land.

Secrets from our past are being brought back to life

John's favourites are the names of the chares, or passages, which once ran down to the riverbank.

The men who dig up the city streets

But if many of us - including generations of Journal hacks - traversed the old route that joins the city's Bigg Market and Collingwood Street/Westgate Road, what of the history of Pudding Chare, whose story began in the medieval mists of time?

A long and winding road for Pudding Chare's back story; The curiously-named Pudding Chare is one of Newcastle's oldest streets. DAVE MORTON looks at its long history

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